Reflective Essay Self-Analysis

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else" (qtd. in Nikolov). Exactly the key of success is to know the rules and be the best player. For me I 'm Egyptian and everything is different here. Taking English in America plus not being my native tongue was a great challenge. I spent my childhood in a British school in Egypt so, English wasn 't that strange to conquer. In my school I studied novels, dramas, and poems. I took a lot of vocabulary and grammar classes as well. Then I transferred to the Art college. Since the study in the Art college was all in Arabic. Therefore I haven 't used English for almost six years. After that I travelled to the United States in July 2013. Then I decided to take an English class as a trial so that I can touch the educational system in the United States. Firstly, I took the placement test. I didn 't pass the First …show more content…
I did my best in the take home essays because I was sure I couldn 't do a good writing in class. Because of the factors of time, stress, and panic my two in class essay was horrible. In the class essays I should have to work a 15 minutes brainstorming and a 45 minutes writing. In my normal conditions I spend more than eight hours brainstorming and a whole day writing. So imagine the miserable result. It was without a doubt disastrous. The miracle is I got C- in my first impromptu which I think I didn 't deserve. I think you considered working under pressure that 's why you gave me this grade. What I didn 't like in my essay is that I wasn 't able to organize my time. I spent a lot of time thinking and searching which put me under more pressure. As a result, I had no time for revision. I didn 't cite one of my sources, and I had many grammar mistakes as well. There was a repetition of ideas within my essay as well; but, the good thing was being a good trial for the second